| Excellent post as always TJ, Sounds like you and I cut the very same stuff, some of what you listed is infact things i use to TEST the blades I make. Its a tough thing to find a real hard use knife be it folder or fixed blade, infact I think a folder is even tougher to find a good hard use knife as the things you seem to want to use it for screams for a custom folder, which oddly are far more exspensive in general then a custom fixed blade.
I have the fortune of making my own folders with my own blades BUT Untill i did that my fav folder was just a 12$ noname clip folder that just by luck happened to hold a edge fairly well for hard use.
I have found, be it a vehicle , firearm or anything we want a item that will do everything and still be inexspensive, unfortunitly that so rarely works out. A side story about that 12$ folder, I lost it one time and its value to me was far more then the 12$ because i fretted over finding that knife for months, I had replaced it with a well known more exspensive folder that didnt cut half as well, and when it went the the washer and dryer, the torx nuts had come completely out, ALL OF THEM and that knife was in individual peices in the dryer. NOT WHAT I CALL HARD USE! haha |